Armenian-Russian allied relations promote sustaining stability and security in the regions of South and North Caucasus and, thus they correspond to the interests of both of the parties. At the same time both Russia and Armenia have to consider attentively new challenges and to fill traditional relations with additional intellectual content. In particular, over the recent years the issues of information security in the context of the necessity to form mutual positive “images” on information field, has actualized. Another important issue is the mutual elaboration of grounded strategy of Armenian-Russian relations with the usage of modern methods of forecasting and planning. The solution of these and similar tasks on the expert level implies coordination of the research works and creation of the joint analytical structures.

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In this article main provisions and conclusions concerning the role of Turkey in the region and establishment of relations between Armenia and Turkey from the materials of the recent study by RAND Corporation (USA) are brought. The comments on the specificity of those conclusions are made. In the light of strategic rollback of the “messianic America” from our region, some geopolitical realities faced by Armenia and region are outlined.

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Developments in 2010 revealed both stalling of the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and attempts of the negotiators to propose new ideas in the form of a “road map” in the Karabakh issue. In the opinion of the author such proposals will lie on an unprepared ground where the elementary and the most important element of more or less efficient step-by-step mechanism of the “road maps” of the settlement of interstate conflicts – the trust between the parties – is absent. External actors represented by the international negotiators may try to transform the so-called “Madrid principles” in the step-by-step elements of the “road map” of the Karabakh conflict settlement. But such attempts are not very efficient, as the sounded “Madrid principles” do not reflect the reality in the zone of the conflict and round it. Extrapolation of the schemes of the “road maps” of interstate conflicts settlement elaborated on the previous stages of the international experience will not have any success in Karabakh issue. That is why without preliminary work of both the conflicting parties and international negotiators in the direction of setting trust and objective grounds for the readiness of all the parties to the conflict to trust each other, it is unreasonable and counter-productive to turn to the issue of elaboration of mechanisms of implementation of the “road map” of Karabakh conflict settlement.

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While analyzing the monograph of H. Bagratyan “The Principles of Mega-Economics” the author came to the conclusion that ideas postulated by H. Bagratyan are far from being indisputable and the declarative “establishment” of a new discipline, the novelty and topicality of which are rather questionable, do not resolve the main issues of the economics as a science.

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The South Caucasus is one of the most important strategic regions on the planet where the interests of different global and regional powers have conflicted. China is active in different regions of the world, which are important from the strategic point of view, including those bordering the South Caucasus. It is natural that the Caucasus is also of definite interest for the Celestial Empire. The PRC eagerly develops its relations with all the states of the South Caucasus, despite their status. This allows assuming that with the lapse of time the relations between the Celestial Empire and countries of the South Caucasus will deepen and broaden.

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By the example of the developments in Egypt we were the witnesses of a Big game on the world chessboard. The fact that the visit of the Russian president to Israel in January 2011 was disrupted is also a part of the same game and the role of the strike of the Israeli diplomats is minimal. Simply the presence of the Russian leader – the successor of the great USSR – with the official visit in one of the key countries in the region was considered to be inappropriate by the “directors”. The sharpness and dynamism of the ongoing events once more proves the tension in the world as well as the absence of any plan for way out from current situation. We got added evidence that the whole world is on the verge of global geopolitical transformations: one can be sure that China will not pass by the developments in Egypt and will prepare its response in the short terms. Whether it will be an overthrowing of the ruling regimes in the satellites of the US in the region (firstly in Saudi Arabia) or the response will be more delicate and will take place in other region of the planet – we will learn it in the short run.

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